Table of Contents Association Business 2008 A/TA Board of Officers & Convention Staff ................................................... 2 Chairman’s Comments. .......................................................................................... 4 President’s Message ................................................................................................. 5 Secretary’s Notes ..................................................................................................... 5 Association Round-Up ......................................................................................... 6-7 AIRLIFT/TANKER QUARTERLY Association & Chapter Contacts ........................................................................... 72 Volume 16 • Number 4 • Fall 2008 Airlift/Tanker Quarterly is published four Features times a year by the Airlift/Tanker Association, Ms. Carol Mauchline, Secretary, 1338 Pepperidge A Welcome Message from General Lichte. ............................................... 8-10 Drive, O’Fallon, IL 62269. 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The Beat Goes On ........................................................................................ 51-52 The appearance of articles or advertisements, Air Mobility Missions Beyond Baghdad including inserts, in Airlift/Tanker Quarterly does not constitute an endorsement by the Mobility Heritage & Heroes ........................................................................ 54-55 Airlift/Tanker Association, the Air Mobility On the 60th Anniversay of the Air Force Reserve Command, the Department of the Air Force or the Department of Defense, of the viewpoints, A Salute to the A/TA Industry Partners ........................................................ 56-68 products or services mentioned or advertised. News & Views ............................................................................................... 69-70 ©2008. Articles appearing in this publication may not be reprinted, in any form, without prior written approval from the Airlift/Tanker Association. Alphabetical List of Advertisers Airlift/Tanker Quarterly is quarterly news cycle- AAR ........................................................................................................................ 40 dependent and is distributed as follows: Winter: January / February / March; Spring: April /May/ A/TA Enlisted Education Grant Program .............................................................. 11 June; Summer: July/August/September; Fall: October / A/TA ...................................................................................................................... 71 November / December [actual distribution dates vary]. 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David Clark Company, Inc. .................................................................................. 46 Derco Aerospace Inc. ............................................................................................. 12 EDITORIAL STAFF: FlightSafety International ............................................................ Inside Back Cover Gen. Walter Kross, USAF, Retired Chairman (Acting), Board of Officers Friendship Always – German Embassy, Washington, D.C. .................................. 21 Gulfstream............................................................................................................. 53 Mr. Collin R. Bakse Editor and Art Director JBT AeroTech (formerly FMC Technologies) ......................................................... 43 Ms. Dawn L. 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A/TQ • Airlift/Tanker Quarterly • Fall 2008 A/TQ • Airlift/Tanker Quarterly • Fall 2008 A Wealth of Knowledge Chairman’s A letter I received shortly after the Spring edition of A/TQ hit the streets resulted in a story that appears in this edition of the Comments magazine [page 20]. The letter, from Col Clyde J. Downey II, USAF (ret), began by pointing out that the story “The Legacy of the Welcome to the 40th Annual A/TA Convention and Symposium Berlin Airlift Lives On,” sent to A/TQ by the here in Anaheim, CA. We extend our warmest hospitality to our German Embassy in Washington, D.C., did members, our guests and our Industry partners as we “convene” in not include any mention of an important Southern California. aspect of that “Legacy.” The letter continued The Annual A/TA Convention and Symposium is where air by relating a wealth of information about the mobility professionals gather once yearly to contribute to and gather efforts to fund, build and dedicate a replica professional and technical knowledge in our critical core missions. of the original Berlin Luftbrücke Memorial, We do this primarily through our comprehensive seminars, panels, located in Berlin, near Rhein-Main AB, in and platform speakers. This deeply-grounded professional core Frankfurt, Germany. The result of those to our Convention is our Symposium, which we co-sponsor with extraordinary efforts stands as a lasting legacy Air Mobility Command. When combined with our A/TA Awards to the success of the Berlin Airlift and the Gen Walter Kross USAF, Ret Program, woven throughout the Convention and culminating in our tenacity of the brave airmen who contributed Awards Banquet, forms the basis for a truly singular air mobility professional convening. so much to that success. This year, our Convention and Symposium centers around 52 separate speakers, panels, Col Downey’s letter also reminded me, and seminars on subjects ranging from acts of heroism to our air mobility heritage to once again, of the tremendous amount of current operations to intellectual air mobility papers. We’ll hear from our leaders – knowledge about America’s Air Mobility keynoting will be Acting Secretary of the Air Force Michael B. Donley. And you’ll have the efforts that exists in the collective memory opportunity to hear from – and even question – all our Mobility Air force Commanders of the thousands and thousands of men through our Total Force Leadership Panel. And you’ll hear from even more directly from and women who have been a part of the Air General McNabb, General Lichte, Lt